Few Americans are aware of the fact that their continent is named after the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Even fewer probably know that it was the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller (1470-1520) and Matthias Ringmann who […]
In a policy statement before the German Bundestag today on the upcoming European Council meeting, Chancellor Angela Merkel affirmed that she will strive at the meeting for the ad- option of an ambitious and credible […]
“In East Germany,” she says, “we always ran into boundaries before we were able to discover our own personal boundaries.” Angela Merkel’s Moment By CATHERINE MAYER / BERLIN Diminutive in the imposing vastness of her […]
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